Patron of every Thing which tends to the Advantage or Improvement of Your Country; and it is no fmall Happiness, that after great Expence and Study, I have an Opportunity of presenting a Gentleman of Your polite Tafte with fome new Difcoveries, which will gain Time in raising Plantations, and fill our Gardens with Fruit at every Seafon of the Year; which, I hope, will afford You fome Amusement in Your leifure Minutes, efpecially fince Your Genius has led You to purchase one of the fineft Collections of Plants in the Kingdom. This, Sir, is Engagement enough for me to offer the following Sheets to Your Perufal, and that I may have the Honour of declaring to the World, that I am, with the greatest Respect, SIR, Your moft obedient bumble Servant, R. Bradley. THE Oncerning the native Places of the fe- veral Tribes of Fruit-trees: With an Etymological Account of their Names, and of the Latitudes of the Countries which each kind of Fruit was brought from: With Directions for ripen- ing of Winter Fruits; and of the Culture of Fig-trees, Page r Of Vines, their Culture and Management, accord- ing to the Practice of the greatest Virtuofo's in France: With the Names and Defcriptions of Concerning the Improvement of old decayed Vines in a Letter to a Gentleman in Hampshire, 47 Obfervations concerning Vineyards and their Pro- Of Pears; a Catalogue of the beft forts, with their Defcription, Culture and time of Ripening; with |